Strawberry? No, strawberries!
Part two.
Chapter 2
Autumn has come. I returned to my gatehouse, which serves me as a winter dwelling for the third year already. In October - November, he fenced the two sides of the site with professional flooring. And ... In the end, it is necessary to finish with the greenhouse. A new stockpile has now been welded not in the gatehouse, but on its own plot. Right on the place where there will be a greenhouse.
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In 2014, the snowfall did not give me the opportunity to reach the arches. Now was the final bending and installation. To assemble a half-arc into the finished arch, I made another assembly slide. And started.
After mistakes and failures in the year before last, he had already approached more flexibly. I checked each half-arc by markers on the stocks. Somewhere I caught up. If everything is correct, transferred the pipe from the bending piles to the assembly. There are already two semi-arches connected by an average, ridge element. Everything. The arch is ready.
And after that, immediately on the rack. And here they are.
They stand ... I can not believe it. Such as in the photo. Such as I imagined them. I saw them in my imagination. Seen in Gelendzhik. Not yet painted. Only two pieces. In the middle of the snow. But worth it!
And it went. Not fast. Two three half-ards a day. And not in a day, but in five six hours. Because there are other things. Protection of gardening, current issues of life and other. But as the preparation of several arches, I immediately put them on the rack. The greenhouse began to take shape.
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Most feared snow drifts. But then winter gave me a chance and an opportunity to finish the frame assembly. I was helped to put the arch two friends guys. They are from two sides, and I'm on the stairs in the middle. Just took and set. Matter of one minute.
2017 year.
January 18, 2017 all the arches were in place.
The greenhouse was outlined in the form and the sizes. Later, on my own, I installed the upper girders and slopes, which give rigidity to the frame.
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But looking at it, I understood perfectly well that this work was only a drop from what I had planned, and that there was still to be done. Not yet assembled to the end. Do not made the ends with doorways. Not yet painted. Not stretched film. It is not even available. And I do not even know where I will buy it. Not to mention the internal stuffing. Which means very, very much. Spring has come. We solve issues as they become available. It was the turn to solve another problem. A huge drop in the place where there is a greenhouse. And it is very relief, complex. The greenhouse itself is strictly horizontal, on the level, but the ground drop along the ends of the greenhouse reaches almost one meter. It is necessary to cover the ground and level. Ten Kamaz dumped on the sides of the greenhouse, five pieces on each side. Huge heaps. But when Bobcat made it all right ... What? And is that all? There must be at least fifteen more KamAZ vehicles. Well, I think, then I'll deliver more. How the money will be.
Money this year, on the KamAZ with the land, was no longer there. Strawberries are blooming, but I no longer harbor any illusions and I know what the result will be. Planting old, no new ridges, the greenhouse is not yet running. From the construction of new ridges, and from this very technology, we have long since abandoned and are refining old ridges, so that we can completely get rid of them.
We do what can be done. Seedlings in pots wintered almost without lunge. Little pots. Only one hundred fifty pieces. Another twenty Israeli containers. Okay. We will hold a dress rehearsal for growing on racks using hydroponics.
At the old cottage, on the former queen cell, they placed racks and assembled the lines. Essentially long, 12 meters tables, one board wide. They put pots on them and mounted drip irrigation. Shaded.
Near mounted bulk tables for growing seedlings. I have been thinking about this method for a long time and have implemented it. Uterine bushes in pots pour drop, cassettes and glasses flooded the table.
The total length of the lines was small and the Mixrayit injection pump did not turn on for the fertilizer feed. Water consumption is also small, so the pumping station supplied the solution already diluted in the barrel. Began to watch.
Now, after a year and a half, I believe that all this was not in vain. It was a working off technology. It revealed errors and made adjustments. And when, a year later, we launched our greenhouse, I no longer had any questions or doubts. We knew exactly what to do. No hints or advice from anyone from anyone else would give me what this practical work gave me. Well, and besides, this small installation also gave us a berry.
Our mother liquor also worked perfectly well with self-leveling tables. And we have grown a lot of seedlings on it. But ... How could I know that in a year we will find an even more productive solution. And the bulk tables, which I tried to do quite qualitatively and carefully, and even intended to add them, in a year they would not be needed at all.
I waited a whole month for the pots to come. Once received, immediately began to plant seedlings in them. That, from bulk tables. Now for the greenhouse. The next, 2018.
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I have for several years, a fairly stable and irremovable schedule. And in October, I again return to the gatehouse. Before the frost, we block the facade of the site with a fence made of corrugated flooring and raise the front wall of the future building block. . Finally, over the years, we have completely shut down. And for the upcoming winter, I again have a car of work in the garage. Now it is necessary to make knots and details of future lines of the greenhouse. Still hundreds of parts, all sorts of tubes, plugs, racks and couplings. Some nodes are assembly units. That is, consist of several parts. Then the total bill is already thousands. And again, for a few months, I turn into a locksmith, a drillman, a carver and a welder. I took a part from a box ... I put it in a glue or in a vice ... Operation ... I took it off with a glue ... I threw it into another box. Days ... weeks ... months ...
2018
By the beginning of the season, the planting lines for the greenhouse were ready. The line installation scheme is combined. Suspension for the frame of the greenhouse alternates with the racks. It is necessary to buy something else. Profile pipe, cables, clips, etc., but what I could do in the winter on my own, I did. In addition, I managed to land, bring one end of the greenhouse to mind. The frame itself and the doorway. Subsequently, the ends are going to close the polycarbonate.
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Read continued: Chapter Three
